How many news stories on people robbing pharmacies, fake storefront doctors, etc...and the DEA just figured this shit out for the past few years. Shit, its over a decade since even RAPPERS switched to pills and codeine pushing in their raps.

There's a FUCKED UP article in the NYtimes this week that discusses why opiod use never took a real foothold in the hood (we stick to our coke heroin, and k2, thank you). Even doctors hate niggas :(


Dr. Meghani’s 2012 analysis of 20 years of published research found that blacks were 34 percent less likely than whites to be prescribed opioids for conditions such as backaches, abdominal pain and migraines, and 14 percent less likely to receive opioids for pain caused by traumatic injuries or surgery....that white children with appendicitis were almost three times as likely as black children to receive opioids in the emergency room...

Adam Hirsh, a pain researcher at Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis, said he had often heard what might be called a silver-lining argument: that even if blacks have been unequally treated for pain, they have largely been spared from opioid addiction. That argument does not sit well with him.

He and other researchers say the reasons may include false stereotypes, such as the assumption that blacks are more likely to abuse drugs, as well as a tendency for doctors to empathize less with patients whose race is different from their own — perhaps subconsciously — and to underestimate the severity of their pain. Only about 4 percent of the country’s practicing physicians are black.

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/us/how-race-plays-a-role-in-patients-pain-treatment.html?_r=0